Sky People
Enga · deity · primordial · Recorded classification
Enga yalyakali = 'sky people / sky men'. A collective class of celestial spirit-beings; rendered as deity (spirit-class) per the schema, with the collective nature flagged. Sex unspecified as the class encompasses sky-dwellers generally. One figure-entry stands for the named category.
Parentage
- parent: Sky-Creator
Domains
- sky world
- immortality
Powers
- DWELL deathless in an ideal sky-world
Sources
- The yalyakali are a class of immortal sky-beings spawned by Aitawe; they inhabit an ideal version of the visible world, free of toil and sickness, and became deathless by drinking the 'water of life'.: Brennan, P.W. (1977). Let Sleeping Snakes Lie: Central Enga Religious Belief and Ritual. Australian Association for the Study of Religions. (ethnography)